The Diocese of Manchester includes a personal safety component in the curriculum of its Catholic schools and religious education programs called Circles of Care. The curriculum addresses age appropriate personal safety issues for children and youth and is introduced in the context of Catholic moral teaching. Click HERE for more information on Circles of Care.
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Parishes and schools in the Diocese of Manchester have an option to use Netsmartz lessons for safe environment training. Netsmartz is an interactive, educational safety resource developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to teach children and youth how to stay safer on the internet. Click HERE for more information.
These differentiated video series present digital safety lessons in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
Faux Paws the Techno Cat Adventures in the Internet - from iKeepSafe teaching kids the basics of Internet safety:
Faux Paw Adventures in the Internet (Online Privacy)
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Faux Paw Meets the First Lady (How to Handle Cyberbullying)
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Faux Paw Goes to the Games (Balancing Real Life with Screen Time)
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Faux Paw and the Dangerous Download
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OTHER SAFETY VIDEOS
What is Personal Information?
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Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet
a film retelling the fable of “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” The animation teaches children that people online may not be who they seem.
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NetSafe Videos
Utah project includes videos on digital citizenship for Primary and Intermediate grades
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Powerpoint Lessons (click to download (Mac & PC)
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INTERACTIVE GAMES
Interland
An adventure-packed online game that makes learning about digital safety and citizenship interactive and fun. Here, kids will help their fellow Internauts combat badly behaved hackers, phishers, oversharers, and bullies by practicing the skills they need to be good digital citizens.
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FBI Safe SurfingGames Gr. 3-8
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CLOUD CHAOS
From Netsmartz
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game to teach kids how to protect their personal information and avoid online predators
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Distinguish between information that is appropriate to give out and information better kept private
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ABCya Cyper-Five
a short animation which introduces children to five helpful rules to be safer on the internet (multiple choice quiz at the end)
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SafetyLand
Guide Captain Broadband rid the city of the "nasty character and all his bad online deeds!
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